Tomorrows it is "international workers day" and the UCLU will be closing most of its services in a show of respect, now despite claims that this is "unwarranted" and will "disadvantage" students another way forward was planned :

"a number of students have banded together to run coffee and cake stall on campus – outside of the closed cafes. The stall is
being funded completely through donations and all proceeds are going to
the excellent Macmillan Cancer Research charity. These efforts have
attracted support from local businesses and they have even received the
coffee needed as a donation from Starbucks."

KT sees nothing wrong with that, showing some initiative and getting local business on board is a good community thing to do, But it seems the loony left union are not happy campers, in their statement they say the following :

"Volunteering your time to raise money for charity and help your fellow
students is good; allowing a corporation to cynically get on board so as
to advertise to students, while it apparently cannot accord its staff a paid lunch break, is scabbing, and you should stop that. Reject Starbucks’ offer, and I will come and join you."

KT thinks there is no need to cry over spilt coffee and the union should stop being childish and do something for the good of the community for a change instead of whinging.

Yet only a few weeks ago Priti Patel stood up in Parliament and said this (in a debate on Baroness Thatcher):

" As my father always said, she ushered in a new era of hope and optimism, and she was a strength for our country." Its seems he was so impressed that he went and stood for the Tories rivals in elections.....

The York University funded paper has published this piece today by Ben Smith in which he says :

"Fascism, in essence, promotes strong leadership, and a kind of group solidarity that ostracises those who do not conform."

He then goes onto to say this"Many of the most revered team successes in history have come about
through the kind of fascist mentality that we are so quick to label
abhorrent and evil. Even more striking is the extent to which strong
sporting leaders are deified in our society, to such a degree that
society even encourages the very fascist characteristics we are
repeatedly forced to detest."

KT thinks those "fascist characteristics" could equally be applied to party politics, I dont think Mr Smith would say Ed Miliband/David Cameron/Nick Clegg are "fascists" (tho i could be wrong) , Strong leadership and teamwork are not exclusive to fascism.

Saturday, 27 April 2013

KT is aware that local elections are happening soon, this means leaflets being pushed tho letterboxes all over the country, it also means some crazy stuff, stepp forward Local UKIP candidate David Nixon with this :

and the other side :

David Cameron has been wrong on a lot of things, but it seems his comment about "fruitcakes and loonies" is pretty accurate.

KT also wonders how voting for a UKIP Councillor would have an impact on the same sex marriage legislation going through the National Parliament.....

"The
LGBTQ in UKIP committee is extremely angry and disappointed by the
comments made by a small number of UKIP local candidates, particularly
David Nixon and John Sullivan.

These candidates, who haven't
been vetted and produce their own campaign literature, have let down the
hundreds of outstanding UKIP candidates who in no way indorse the
comments made, and the Party in general.

Whilst we believe in
freedom of speech, this does not mean UKIP should therefore accommodate
people with obnoxious beliefs such as suggesting LGBTQ people are
inferior or abnormal.

We are informed by the Party that they
are thoroughly investigating each of the cases raised by the media. It
is unlikely these investigations will be concluded before Thursday.

It is our belief that these candidates should have the UKIP whip drawn
from them, and that future candidates are properly vetted and literature
officially approved before being published.

The candidates named above shall be receiving direct correspondence from us in the near future."

It seems Labours women problem is not getting any better, not content with not condemning a PPC for saying they would work with the SWP on campaigns, the same SWP that held secret hearings on rape allegations ( link ) and Ed Miliband meeting George Galloway now a council candidate refers to a recently deceased woman that died after suffering a stroke as *bitches*

Ed Miliband claims he and his party support the NHS and know whats best for it, Unfortunately one Labour Peer disagrees , In the HSJ Labour Peer Lord Warner has taken a little swipe at Ed "One Nation" Miliband on his moves to get rid of new NHS reforms

"My reading of them is that they do little more than put on a
statutory footing the competition and procurement rules produced under
the previous government, with the addition of some sensible provisions
on the integration of health and social care.

Labour has decided
to put down a motion to annul these regulations. I consider this not to
be in the interests of patients and believe it gives a clear signal of
preference for NHS providers, which may not be compliant with EU
competition law. I shall be voting against this motion."

KT would be more shocked about this but Labour and Ed have form for opposing policy that was first brought in under the last Labour Government.

Sunday, 21 April 2013

KT was not going to blog about this again but feels he has to, As readers will know KT can be a bit of a stickler for manners, I mean they dont cost nowt and only take a second, readers will also know that liarpoliticians does political video clips for this site and clips that are used on other sites, seeing as Liarpoliticans does not charge for the service I think the least you can do is hat-tip him on blog post, I always do it for clips i use of him, well it seems that ConHome think that a small thing like a hat-tip dont matter, see this post today :

Having no luck with that i then tweeted Tim Montgomerie with whom i had exchanged tweets ( polite) about this before and Tim agreed that a hat-tip was the right thing to do, unfortunately i had forgot that Tim had left Con Home however he said he would pass on the message

@ontablets I'll pass the message on but I don't work for ConHome anymore
— Tim Montgomerie (@TimMontgomerie) April 21, 2013

KT was grateful of this but checking back at 2145 hours ( time i am typing this post ) a hat-tip has still not been added.

Surely it cannot be to hard to ask "Is this our video and if not whose is it so we can hat-tip them?" , bad manners like this reflect badly not only on Con Home but also on the Conservative partyand also set a bad example for the young people in society!

This clip from BBC This Week on Thursday debates manners and politeness V Freedom of expression (protest), In one respect it is a non debate as one is an opinion and the other is a right, I wrote in the "Liverpool" this one line (that is seems many missed by accident or on purpose ) :

"I support the right of anti Thatcher Supporters to protest at her
funeral and celebrate her death as part of freedom of expression"

Now while i find those that protested at an old ladies funeral ( that left office over 20 years ago) quite sad and pathetic i will defend their right to protest, It was on a public highway, paid with (in part) by public (taxpayers) money, I would never protest at anyone's funeral ( i prefer to protest when the people are alive, kinda think that actually makes an impact) , I find it distasteful (but hey thats me) but i do not want people arrested, mocked yes but not arrested.

The reason i wrote that this was a *non debate* is freedom of expression and speech should be an absolute, how ppl choose to use that freedom is an opinion ( and may have consequences).

One thing that i dont think some people understand is this, defending the right of free speech does NOT mean agreeing with what is said ( something some on twitter cant get their head round) and actually what is quite ironic is that some of the people being threatened are the very people that will defend everyone`s right to free speech and expression.

Freedom of speech and expression are for all, not just the twitter mob!

Note : KT hopes that all those that came down to visit the greatest city on planet ( London) had a lovely time.

Friday, 19 April 2013

I forgot i had these on the laptop, we have heard for the last week how Liverpool and their fans want respect shown despite them singing anti Thatcher songs and wishing someone with cancer would die

and for readers dont know who Mark Halsey is :

So, what other pearls of "wisdom" did Liverpool fans send?

and

and

Thats Liverpool fans response after their team lost a game of football, as you can see they have the moral high ground on respect ( sarcasm) , now while i run one blog post at the time i NEVER called for anyone to be investigated to the police, now while i would never post something like that i am a believer in free speech and i live by that advice by Voltaire gave:

I support the right of anti Thatcher Supporters to protest at her funeral and celebrate her death as part of freedom of expression ( even if i find it distasteful ), there is no middle ground of free speech.

"First they came for the racist tweets, i said nothing, then they came for "offensive" t-shirt wearers, i still said nothing, then they came for "offensive" tweets, again i said nothing, now they come for me, there is no-one to say anything."

For those that struggle to understand this i will put it in big letters and in plain English

"Supporting freedom of speech does not mean supporting what is said"

For those that chose to take "offence" (offence can only be taken, never given) Twitter comes with a "Block" option and an "unfollow" option, i suggest you use them instead of phoning the police.

Their is a word for those that demand that someone be locked up for holding views they find "offensive", i just cant think of it at the moment.

Liverpool fans, if you dont want to be "offended" then go and live in the socialist/communist/Marxist paradise of North Korea.

Note : I support everyone's right to freedom of speech and expression, its called consistency you see!

KT is only just catching up on yesterdays news, Some readers will know that KT is a West Ham fan, but KT likes to think that he gives an impartial view of events, Well this "incident" apparently enraged Comrade Fergie

The Green Party like to present themselves as nice and cuddly people, ya know, looking after the icebergs and fluffy killer animals ( something like that) , but it seems that does not extend to humans, this is Green party candidate Trevor Allman supporting an attempt by terrorists to murder a UK Prime minster

But that is not all

@davidcoburnukip Pity it wasn't her body. Could have strung it from a lamp-post, like fellow Fascist, Mussolini.
— TREVOR ALLMAN (@TREVORWALLMAN) April 13, 2013

@ey1255 @mark__witt I agree Marisha. There are some evil people out there. Thankfully there's one less after Monday.
— TREVOR ALLMAN (@TREVORWALLMAN) April 13, 2013

He might love your wind turbines, but he has zero basic human decency, maybe he and Glenda Jackson should start a club! Update : Trevor gets in touch